Industrial Disease
Ton : AEnglish
Intro :
A D E G D C Bm A (4x)
NAow warning lights are flashing down in quality control.
Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole.
there's rumours in the loading bay and anger in the town.
somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down.
There's a mDeeting in the boardroom, they're trying to trace the smell,C Bm
there's a lAeaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in PDersonnel.
SEomewhere in a corridor someone was heard to sneeze.
GAoodness me, goodness me, Industrial Disease !
TAhe caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post,
They're refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most.
The watchdog's got rabies, the foreman's got the fleas,
And everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease.
There's pDanic on the switchboard, tongues are tied in knots.C Bm
Some cAome out in sympathy some come out in spots,
SEome blame the management some the employees.
AAnd everypone knows it's the industrial disease
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TAhe workforce is disgusted, downs tools and walks.
Innoncence is injured; experience just talks.
Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees
That these are "classic symptoms of a monetary squeeeze".
On IDTV and BBC they talk about the curse.C Bm
PhiloAsphy is useless, theology is worse,
HEistory boils over, there's an economics freeze;
SAociologists invent words that mean "Industrial Disease"
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DAoctor Parkinson declared "I'm not surprised to see you here.
You've got smoker's cough from smoking, brewer's droop from drinking beer.
I don't know how you came to get the Bette Davis knees,
but worst of all young man you've got Industrial Disease"
He wDrote me a prescription, he said "You are depressed,C Bm
but IA'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest.
CEome back and see me later -- next patient please !
SAend in another victim of Industrial Disease."
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IA go down to Speaker's Corner. I'm thunderstruck !
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks.
Two men say they're Jesus -- one of them must be wrong.
There's a protest singer singing a protest song -- he says
"They wDanna have a war so they can keep us on our knees.C Bm
They wAanna have a war so they can keep their factories.
TEhey wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese.
TAhey wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease !
TAhey're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind.
They wanna sap your energy, incarcerate your mind.
They give you Rule Britannia, gassy beer, page three,
two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease."
MeanwDhile the first Jesus says "I'd cure it soon,C Bm
abAolish monday mornings and friday afternoons."
TEhe other one's out on hunger strike he's dying by degrees.
HAow come Jesus gets Industrial Disease ?
Instrumental :
A D E G D C Bm A (4x)
Finale :
E G D C Bm A